Manchu Tubergourd - Thladiantha dubia - delicious fruit hardy climber - 25 seeds

Manchu Tubergourd - Thladiantha dubia - delicious fruit hardy climber - 25 seeds

The perennial climber to 6m (20 ft) long. Frost hardy to zone 6a. This plant creates round tubers (similar to potatoes but edible probably after processing) and tasty, red fruits (which resemble Passion Fruit inside) which are considered as edible when fully ripe. In my experience I can say that fruits are very delicious, aromatic and very sweet, but edible in raw state only in small amounts (because they irritate throat during eating - probably contain calcium oxalate raphides). But long boiled flesh of fruits loses irritating qualities and is very delicious even in large doses. Very ornamental climber - numerous yellow flowers and red fruits. Seeds fresh - harvested in autumn 2024. Seeds hard to find in trading. Very rare plant. Sow the seeds surface. Keem moist but not very wet. You can use fungicide to covering the seeds. To creation of fruits there are necessary male and female plants (from the seeds there should grow up both sexes) and hand pollinating (because it creates in its flowers fat oil, not nectar, and European or American bees do not want pollinate them). Package 25 seeds (harvested in autumn 2024). Warning: this species has been reported as a rare (but locally very abundantly growing) invasive plant in some countries, for example in the upper Midwest of the United States.